South Korea’s financial regulators set the pace for sweeping cryptocurrency regulations to curb speculative overheating and illegal activity on Tuesday, including banning foreigners and minors from opening new cryptocurrency accounts. Financial Services Commission vice chairman Kim Yong-beom announced measures to ban anonymous trading on domestic exchanges, while foreigners and minors would be completely banned from…
The Programmer at the Center of a $100 Billion Crypto Storm
123 COMMENTS The drop was swift: Prices for bitcoin and dozens of other digital currencies on Jan. 8 fell sharply, lopping more than $100 billion off their collective market value. The globe-rattling move can be traced to one address: An apartment in a new residential building across the street from a local union headquarters in…
The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin | Julia Ebner | Opinion
Bitcoin Opinion The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin Julia Ebner For extremists, deregulated cryptocurrencies are a potent political statement as much as a means to fund their activities Wed 24 Jan 2018 15.26 GMT Last modified on Wed 24 Jan 2018 21.48 A far-right march in Charlottesville last August. ‘Many extremists had…
How Segwit2X hard fork solves the fundamental problems of Bitcoin
How Segwit2X hard fork solves the fundamental problems of Bitcoin Posted by admin News , Press Release Comments Off on How Segwit2X hard fork solves the fundamental problems of Bitcoin One of the main hard forks in the history of Bitcoin named Segwit2X , will be released on December 28th, 2017 on the block 501451.…
Monaco (MCO) Trading Down 20.7% Over Last Week
Posted by Cynthia Vaughn on Jan 21st, 2018 // No Comments Monaco (CURRENCY:MCO) traded up 3.8% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on January 21st. Monaco has a market capitalization of $176.14 million and approximately $18.52 million worth of Monaco was traded on exchanges in the last…
Tech 2017: BBC News Online’s biggest technology stories
Getty Images/Reuters For many, 2017 will be defined by fake news and the fight-back against it. Others will point to the blog that uncovered sexism and sexual harassment at Uber, helping force the resignation of the ride-hailing firm’s founder and paving the way for other controversies to be uncovered. Gamers may prefer instead to celebrate…
2017 In Crypto Review | Investing.com
Follow As 2018 is about to take over and while everyone is counting yearly incomes, making ambitious plans for the upcoming year, there comes a perfect time to take a look back at the year that we had and review what happened to the cryptocurrencies market. ICO boom, Bitcoin mania, huge hype for blockchain, futures…
New Bitcoin Abomination | Hacked: Hacking Finance
// — Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace . The young government of South Korea has just passed a law to try and reign in the overzealous population’s cryptocurrency craving. The law puts a blanket ban on opening anonymous crypto wallets and will give regulators the authority to shut down exchanges “if…
Revain (R) Trading 22.9% Lower Over Last 7 Days
Posted by ABMN Staff on Jan 21st, 2018 // No Comments Revain (CURRENCY:R) traded down 5.7% against the dollar during the one day period ending at 19:00 PM ET on January 21st. During the last week, Revain has traded down 22.9% against the dollar. Revain has a market capitalization of $152.01 million and $2.53 million…
Dragonchain Price Reaches $2.78
Posted by ABMN Staff on Jan 21st, 2018 // No Comments Dragonchain (CURRENCY:DRGN) traded 7.6% lower against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 11:00 AM E.T. on January 21st. During the last week, Dragonchain has traded down 25.4% against the U.S. dollar. Dragonchain has a market cap of $663.03 million and…